Saturday, 13 November 2010

Iraqi Christians - the plight


There doesn't seem to be as much in the media about this as I would have expected. In today's Guardian, however, there are a couple of excellent articles.

"The irony of Bush's Iraq invasion is that it may have wiped out his faith where other conquests have failed"

TEXT HERE

"I am terrified to live in this society. We are being slaughtered like sheep. Yet this is our country."

TEXT HERE

"They called me from the church. I heard it all live, the bombs, the screaming"

TEXT HERE

3 comments:

Grandmère Mimi said...

This is heartbreaking. The Christian communities in Iraq are amongst the oldest in the history of Christianity, and they are threatened with extinction in their home country.

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

What Grand'mère said!

But it's no surprise that this failed presidency failed all across...

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

In Botkyrka I lived and worked with Assyrians, Kurds and other fugitives from evil regimes...